FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture.
"FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture" will receive $25,000, the Baltimore Museum of Art said Saturday.
Art does not get much more activist than the Baltimore-based initiative FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, co-founded by Hannah Brancato and Rebecca Nagle.
Artists Rebecca Nagle and Hannah Brancato, co-founders of the activist group FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, began the Monument Quilt in 2013.
FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture cares deeply about the values and accountability of the movement to end sexual violence.
FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, out of Baltimore, a collaboration between artists and activists focused on upsetting the culture of rape and promoting a culture of consent.
FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture was recently awarded the 2016 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, and the group's work is on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art through July 31 , 2016
But sometimes [a person] doesn't have the agency to say no," explained Ignacio Rivera, a sex educator and leadership team member with FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture.
Rebecca Nagle, founder and co-director of activist group FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, doesn't see why shifting from requiring a potential victim to have said "no," to an accused to have ensured there was an unambiguous "yes" is an issue.
Take for example: FCKH8's "Potty-Mouthed Princesses," Always's "Like a Girl," Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz's senior thesis, the work of artists Hannah Brancato and Rebecca Nagle of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, and smaller organizations -- like hu-MAN Up -- that are popping up all over the country.
